Horseshoe and means for attaching the same.



No 845,699. PATENTED FEB. 26, 1907.

4 w. M; DIGHT. HORSESHOE AND MEANS FOR ATTAGHING THE SAME. APPLIGATIONFILED JUNE 28, 1906. RENEWED JAN. 10, 1907.

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WILLIAM MILLER DIGHT, OF JACKSON CENTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

HORSESHOE AND IV|EANS FOR ATTACHING THE SAME.

Application filed June 28,

Specification of Letters Patent.

1905. Renewed lanuary 10,1907. Serial No. 351.692.

Patented. Feb. 26, 1907.

To a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MILLER DIGHT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Jackson Center, in the county of Meroer and State ofPennsylvania, certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes andMeans for Attaching the Same, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the ac companying drawings.

My present invention relates to improvements in horseshoes and means forattaching the same, the object being to construct the device carried bythe horseshoe by means of which the shoe can be readily removed orattached tothe hoof of a horse without the necessary and injuriouseffect of driving nails.

To attain these objects, my invention consists of a new and novelconstruction of attaching device, as will presently appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of myattached to a horse-hoof. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the device removedfrom the hoof, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of the bent-wire constructionremoved from the shoe.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the'hoof of the horse, and B theshoe, the shoe being of the usual construction and provided with theusual number of openings.

In applying my invention by means of which the shoe is secured to thehoof I provide a series of recesses or grooves 1, extending from thelower edge or bottom of the hoof upwardly. Secured to the shoe andhaving its oppositely-inclined terminals 2 secured through the outeropenings 3 of the shoe and embedded so as to be within the recess 4 ofthe bottom of the shoe is the suporting-wire 5. One of these are adaptedto be placed on each side of the shoe, so that a air is necessary toproduce the desired rethe two remaining openings of sult. Each piece ofwire is bent to form a short loop 6 and a long loop 7, the two beingconnected together by means of the short strip 8, which fits within therecess in the bottom of the shoe, asthe wire is adapted to pass throughthe body ofthe shoe, the shoe being constructed with the usual number offour openings upon each side. The short and long have inventedimprovement as loops of the shoe are adapted to extend upward and bebent inward toward each other, so as to conform to the curvature of thehorses hoof and have the lower portions thereof enter the recesses orchannels 1, formed in the hoof, so that when the clamping device 9 isplaced in position the long loops are drawn tightly together upon thebody of the hoof, so as to securely hold the shoe in position. the twomembers 10 and 11, each one of which is provided with the hookedterminals 12 and 13 for the reception of the long loops of wire and withthe two right-angled arms or terminals 14 and 15, through which isadapted to pass the adjusting and holding screw 16, provided with thescrew-nut 17.

As the screw or the nut is turned so as to draw the ends ofthe twomembers together the wire supporting devices are brought closelytogether and clamp the shoe tightly .on the hoof.

When it is desired to remove the shoe, it is simply necessary to removethe screw and the clamping device and bend the loops outward, so as tobe disengaged from the grooves of the hoof, thus producing a simple andefiicient means for securing shoes upon can be readily h the hoofs ofhorses so that it attached or detached.

What I claim as new, by Letters Patent, is-

In combination ,with a horseshoe of a device for connecting the same toa hoof consisting of'two pieces of wire, one to each side of the shoe,each piece being bent to form a short front loop and a long rear loop.the ends of each piece entering the front and rear openings of the shoefrom the upper side of the shoe and terminating within the groove of theshoe and the connection between both loops resting within the samegroove of the shoe between the two center openings, and means connectedto the two rear loops for clamping them upon the exterior of the hoof,for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM MILLER DIGHT. Witnesses:

JAMEs D. EMERY, JOHN A. Mrnns.

and desire to secure This device consists of

